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Stories Telling Bodies: A Self-Disclosing Queer Theology of Sexuality and Vulnerability

Van Klinken, Adriaan. 2020. Stories Telling Bodies: A Self-Disclosing Queer Theology of Sexuality and Vulnerability. In Vulnerability and Re...

Adriaan van Klinken Adriaan van Klinken

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Sinnlighetens Närvaro: Luther Mellan Kroppskult Och Kroppsförakt

Gerle, Elisabeth. 2015. Sinnlighetens Närvaro: Luther Mellan Kroppskult Och Kroppsförakt. Stockholm: Verbum. https://www.verbum.se/52636053-...

Elisabeth Gerle Elisabeth Gerle

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Bodies and/as Texts: Representing queer on screen in contemporary Africa

The body is an assemblage of not only the physical and the material.

Gibson Ncube Gibson Ncube

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Dog-human correlations in post-Soviet and post-apartheid literature and film

My research project falls into the interdisciplinary field of human-animal studies and deals with the discursive formation of human-dog correlation in socio-political discourse.

Henrietta Mondry Henrietta Mondry

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Sealing the Female Body Before Marriage: Cultural Debates about Hymeneal Signs

This project asks how reflections on the female body part called the hymen or maidenhead in early modern English texts (produced from 1500-1700) can illuminate modern debates about the set of modern surgical practices called hymenoplasty.

Margaret Ferguson Margaret Ferguson
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